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Notable Legislative Accomplishments

Organized the Oregon Litigation Reform Coalition, which successfully lobbied a package of bills providing for reciprocity in attorney fee awards, prohibiting application of RICO in most business disputes unless a prior criminal conviction was obtained, changing standards for punitive damages awards, allocating 60 percent of those awards to the state, and abolishing the doctrine of joint and several liability replacing it with the doctrine of reallocation of most tort actions

Authored and lobbied for numerous sections of “Measure 50” and its implementing legislation reducing and limiting property taxes statewide

Authored and successfully lobbied “Right to Farm” legislation protecting agriculture from many nuisance and trespass suits as development moves closer to farming communities

Authored and successfully lobbied for legislation creating Oregon's Willamette River Cleanup Authority to monitor the Portland Harbor Superfund RI/FS process and recommend whether the state should issue pollution control bonds to finance the cleanup